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I just got back from dentist and he put a filling in my bottom left molar. do i wait a day for it to set or anything?
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No: A tooth colored filling is immediately hard and you don't have to wait. A silver filing is mostly hard before you leave the dentist office and certainly by the time the numbness is gone. The cement for a crown is hard within 20 minutes.
Answered 1/2/2014
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